Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Benediction Video Mix

As well as the recent upload of four long mixes from the Mixcloud site, here is a new video from the warped brain of Conny Plankton. The audio track is Benediction from the recent Replete album, uploaded to the blog from Bandcamp a week or two ago. The video contains some mind bending graphics and should really hit the spot. Enjoy folks!

 

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No youtube on this one folks - some of the footage used may mean I would get a strike almost instantly!



Four New Mixcloud Mixes from Conny Plankton

Conny Plankton steps out temporarily from the regular Bandcamp site and all of the albums being released there - diving in back into Mixcloud to upload four long mixes, based on some quite diferent themes.

Here we go!

Chemical Shock

A Mix based loosely around voice actors from a popular video game - there is a clue in the title. The voice samples were edited down and rearranged with loops of 1930s and 1940s music as multi-tracked arrangement to produce something deeply and darkly disturbing.


The Real World

This mix was made from a series of home produced field recordings, made at various times and places around the North of England. Everything was edited down, minimal effects added, and then reassembled to produced a mix far away from the contexts of the original recordings and to create something altogether new and unsettling.





Revisited

A Mix made from earlier recordings by Conny Plankton - but rather than just segue one track after another, stems and samples were cut from the original recordings and then reassembled into a multi-tracked monster to make something weird and wonderful.




Reincarnation

The second in a series of mixes based around using samples and outtakes of earlier Conny Plankton recordings: stripped down, deconstructed and then arranged into and reincarnated into one single mix.


Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Replete

 July 2022 sees a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton - celebrating the completion of the first version of the Nifty Eurorack system and allowing many complex routings and patchings with external sequencers, synths and VST plug ins. The final mixes range from atonal onslaughts, to hypnotic sequences to ambient soundscapes - and many places in between!